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G. N. POST.

TAMBOURINE. i N0. 349,001. Patented, Sept. 14, 1886.

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TAMBOURINB. No. 349,001. Patented Sept. 14, 1886.

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UNrrED STATES PATEN r FHCE.

CHARLES N. POST, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, r SSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, GEORGE \V. LYON, PA'lPtlGK J. HEALY, SAME PLACE.

AND ROBERT B. GREGORY, ALL OF TAMBOURINE.

Application filed June 10, 1881?.

To It whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES N. losr, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illi nois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tambourines, of which the following is a specification.

In the manufacture of the cheaper class of tambourines prior to my invention it has been customary to stretch the head in a green or damp state over the hoop and to draw the edge portion of the head down upon the outer side of the hoop, to which latter the said edge portion of the head is then secured by a line of tacks. An objection to said mode of securing thchcad is, that after the head becomes dry and shrunk, or while it is undergoing the process of drying and shrinking, the material of which the head is composed is liable to tear at the points where it is secured by the tacks, and owing to the fact that these points of sccurement occur at intervals the tension upon that portion of the head which passes over the edge of thehoop is unequally distributed, and hence the material of the head fre quently tears at such points.

The object of myimprovcment is to obviate all of said defects without materially increasing the cost of the cheaper class of tambourines, and in fact to lessen their cost. by providing means which can be applied to the tambourine for the purpose of holding the head in ash-etched condition in a shorter time than that necessary to tack down the same, and likewise at a less expense, owing to the cheapncss with which said means can be provided.

To the attainn'ient of the foregoing and other useful ends, my invention consists, first, in providing the hoop with an annular rib or shoulder extending around the hoop adjacent to that edge over which the head is drawn, and means suitable for securing the head to the body of the hoop along a line adjacent to said rib, in which way the frictional contact between the head, and the surface of said rib, together with the bent condition of that portion of thehead which is drawn over said rib, serves to hold. the head in a better manner than heretofore, and lessons the tension upon the means employed for securing the head to TION orming part of Letters Patent No. 349,001, dated :September 1%, 1886.

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the side of the hoop; second, in providing the hoop with an annular seat or groove formed in its outer side adjacent to the edge over which the head is drawn, the said head being drawn over the edge of the hoop and secured in said annular seat or groove by any suitable devices; third, in combining with the construction hcreinbefore last specified a fastening hoop or band which serves to hold the edge portion of the head within said annular seat or groove; fourth, in securing the edge portion of the head to the hoop by a metal band which has been punched or otherwise treated, so as to provide it along one side with a series of spnrs,which are forced through the material of the head and likewise forced into the body of the hoop.

In the drawings, which illustrate a tambourine provided with the several features of my improvement, Figure 1 represents what may be termed a side view of the tambourine. with the head drawn over an annular rib and held in an annulargroove by means of a band provided with spurs. Fig. 2 is a like view of the hoop employed in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 repre sents a section taken transverselythrough Fig. 1. Fig. at represents a side view of a portion of the band provided with spurs, said view Show ing the outer side of the band. Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section of a portion of the band of the preceding figure. Fig. 6 is a view simi lar to Fig. 3, but with the annular groove omitted. Fig. 7 is a view similar to Fig. 6, but with the band omitted and the hoop provided with the groove in which the edge portion of the head is secured by tacks. Fig. 8 is a view similar to Fig. 7, but with the edge portion of the head held within the groove by the band, and the latter secured by tacks in place of the spurs.

Referring by letter to the drawings, in which like letters denote like parts, A indicates the hoop, and B the head, of a tambourine.

Referring more particularly to the first five figures of the drawings, the hoop is provided along its outer side with an annular groove or seat, a, which is parallel with and adjacent to that edge of the hoop over which the head is drawn. The formation of this channel necessarily provides along said edge portion of the hoop a continuous rib or shoulder, a. The

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head is stretched over this rib, and is forced into and held within the groove or seat a by means of the band 0, which may fit into said groove so that its outer side shall be substantially flush with the outer side of the hoop. The band C is desirably formed of metal and punched at intervals; so as to provide a series of spurs, c, which, when the band is applied, can be forced through the material of the head and pressed into the body of the hoop.

The foregoing arrangement involves a desirable and serviceable construction of a cheap tambourine, it being obvious that the material of the hoop can be readily grooved in the production of the latter, that the band can be punched at a trifling expense, and that in applying said band it can be drawn from a coil and applied as needed. \Vith regard to the rib as a feature of improvement it could,however, be formed as in Fig. 6, wherein the material of the hoop is for the greater portion of the width of the latter reduced in thickness, so as to provide the hoop with said rib. It will also be seen'that the hoop can be provided with the annular groove, and the head secured in said groove by tacks, as in Fig. 7, or that the band may be used with the grooved hoop, as shown in Fig. 8, and in place of providing theband with spurs it could be secured to the hoop by tacks D.

While I have described my said invention as an improvement in tambourines, I desire to be understood that it could likewise be applied to cheap banjos, and hence a banjo will be regarded as an equivalent for the term tambourine employed in the following claims.

lVhat I claim as my invention is 1. A tambourine having its hoop providedwith an annular rib or shoulder adjacent to that edge of the hoop over which the head is drawn, combined with thehead drawn over V said rib and'secur'ed'to the body of the hoop along a line adjacentto-thc rib, substantially as described.

2. In a tambourine, the hoop provided with an annular seat or grooved-formed in its outer groove by an annular band, substantially as described.

4. In a tambourine, the combination, with the head and the hoop, of means for securing the head to the hoop',consisting of aband provided with spurs which are forced through the edge portion of the head and pressed into the body of the hoop, substantially as described.-

5. In a tambourine, the hoop provided along its outer side with a continuous seat or groove formed adjacent to that edge of the hoop over which the head is drawn, in'combination with the head stretched over said edge of the hoop and held within the said groove by a metal band fitted in said groove against the edge portion of the head and provided with spurs, sub stantially as described, which are forced through the material of the head and pressed into the bodyof the hoop.

CHARLES N. POST.

lVitn esses:

CHAS. G. PAGE, L. S. LOGAN.

It is hereby certified that Letters Potent No. $19,001, granted. September 14,1886,

upon the application of Charles N. Post, of Chico-go, Illinois, for an improvement in Tanibourines, was erroneously issued to Charles N. Post, George \V. Lyon, Patrick 1 J. Healy, and Robert 13. Gregory, Whereas said Letters Patent should have been issued lo Lyon (6 Healg, of Chicago, Illinois, said Lyon & Hen-1y being assignees of the EEC?- entire interest; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction thereilflthat the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

I; u go E Signed, countersigned, and sealed this Zlst day of December, A. D. 1886.

[SEAL] o. L. HAWKms, 1th,, Acting Secretary of the Interim l Gountersigned: 2e. 13. VANCE,

Acting (70m'm'imimzcr of Patents.

Correction in Letter P t t No. 349,001.

' It is hereby certified that Letters Patent No. 849,001, granted. September 14,1886, upon the application of Charles N. Post, of Chicago, Illinois, for an improvement in Tambonrines, was erroneously issued to Charles N Post, George W. Lyon, Patrick J. Healy, and Robert B. Gregory, Whereas said Letters Patent should have been issued to Lyon &; Heady, of Chicago, Illinois, said Lyon 82; Healy being assignees of the entire interest; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction i thereinlthat the same ma conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed, countersigned, and sealed this 21st day of December, A. D. 1886.

[SEAL] D. L. HAWKINS,

' Acting Secretary of the Interior.

Oountersigned:

R. B. VANCE,

Acting Commissioner of Patents. 

